Yeah! this is sad times! and certainly very bad PR for the Americans and their acts which always seem to lack basic common sense - it's lunacy!

The Kandahar governor, Tooryalai Wesa, called for the commander of the military convoy who opened fire to be prosecuted under military law.

“If you want to stop the bus, it should be shot in the tires,” Mr. Wesa said. “Why shoot the people inside?”

Mr. Karzai, whose relationship with the United States has been particularly fraught in recent weeks, called the shooting “unjustifiable”
and said that “firing on a passenger bus is against the NATO commitment to save civilian lives.”

Driving in a convoy and then suddenly firing against innocent civilians on a bus in a shooting like they were playing GrandTheftAuto or something!

And without any common sense or second thoughts that these kind of actions could put shame on all nations who now are fighting in Afghanistan -
including their own country.

Yeah! these morons are by their actions helping the Talibans by raising tension & hate against all Nato nations and their participation in the
Afghanistan effort.

These recent shooter idiots are now therefore by these raving mad actions also a great concern for every other Nation that have troops in Afghanistan
- the British - the Germans - the Swedes - the Danes - the Finns etc etc.

Just incredible!

The unmature little brats who are doing things like this should be put on display on international TV - and be forced to bow down in shame in front of
the whole world.

Great. This is what happens when we continue to kill innocent civilians. You cannot win the war without winning the confidence of the people within.
If you do not have their support then you WILL LOSE....and you certainly won't get it when we keep killing innocent people for all the world to see.

Not only is support dwindling here for this never ending war...but anger is increasing all over the world for the deaths of innocent people that are
rising from both sides.

Originally posted by Nammu
The Taliban was bad, but as least they didn't fire on buses of innocent people just getting out of the way!

In such a hard-lined region, the troops should be doing everything they can to win the hearts of the people. Instead they are pushing them back
towards supporting the Taliban just to get the occupiers out of their country.

It's so obvious that attacks on civilians like this are meant to continue the friction and continue the war for as long as possible.

Yeah stoning people to death, killing school girls, chopping of hands and heads, suicide bombers targeting large groups of people... all these things
are not nearly as bad as the soldiers firing on a bus of people with a story that we don't have all the facts for yet.

The way I see it to prevent these types of stories we have two options.

Declare war for real, kick most of the press out of the country, state a clear objective, wipe the country clean old school and go home.

or

Just go home.

Either way, this war is almost ten years old and we don't seem to be any further ahead. Stuff like this happens in war zones. Maybe not as messy as
this but it happens. The longer we stay and the more jaded our troops get, the more often this stuff is going to happen. How many of your mates can
you see blown up by IED's before you see every Afghani as a terrorist and conversly, how many of your freinds an family can you see shot up by an
occupying force before you become an insurgent?

As i've previously said, you can't say that their way of killing innocent people is worse than our way of doing it.

They blow themselves up in a market, we drop bombs on a wedding. They kill school girls for going to school, we shoot them on the way to school. They
stone people to death, we tie up and gag pregnant women and shoot them dead. They chop off hands for stealing, we use depleted uranium ammunition that
will cause birth defects and cancer for generations to come.

Yeah, i made my comment in haste. We're just as bad as each other (we are probably worse if you check the death figures and take into account future
deaths and defects caused by the uranium)

Yeah, i made my comment in haste. We're just as bad as each other (we are probably worse if you check the death figures and take into account
future deaths and defects caused by the uranium)

You may have made your comment in haste, but you are right on.
There is nothing but truth in what you said.

I guess the only difference is that their murdering idiots are individuals encouraged by small bands of extremists; ours are a highly trained and
funded war machine acting on the behalf of an entire nation's government.

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